Description
A local privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability exists in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent software on Windows that enables an authenticated local user with file creation privilege in the Windows root directory (such as C:\) to execute a program with elevated privileges. This issue impacts: All versions of the Cortex XDR agent when upgrading to Cortex XDR agent 7.7.0 on Windows; Cortex XDR agent 7.7.0 without content update 500 or a later version on Windows. This issue does not impact other platforms or other versions of the Cortex XDR agent.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Affected products
- Palo Alto Networks / Cortex XDR Agent7.7 – 7.7.1.62043 without CU-500
- Palo Alto Networks / Cortex XDR Agent7.7.* with CU-500 – 7.7.* with CU-500
- Palo Alto Networks / Cortex XDR Agent7.6 all – 7.6 all
- Palo Alto Networks / Cortex XDR Agent7.5 CE all – 7.5 CE all
- Palo Alto Networks / Cortex XDR Agent7.4 all – 7.4 all
- Palo Alto Networks / Cortex XDR Agent7.5 all – 7.5 all
- Palo Alto Networks / Cortex XDR Agent6.1 all – 6.1 all
- Palo Alto Networks / Cortex XDR Agent5.0 all – 5.0 all